How exactly do water towers work?

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Is the water always up there?

How does the water get up there? I assume pumps but it all just doesn’t compute in my brain.

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It’s cheaper to have one giant pump in the water tower than for each building to have their own mini pump.

In places like NYC where there’s a lot of buildings taller than the water tower, the tall buildings do need their own water pumps.

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